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Degas, Royal Tiger – Study After Delacroix | Oil Sketch

Powerful orange and ochre tiger crouching against dark background, muscular form rendered in loose, expressive brushwork with intense predatory gaze

This study reveals Degas copying Delacroix’s famous tiger, an exercise common among 19th-century artists refining their technique. The loose handling of the beast’s striped coat and tense musculature demonstrates Degas’s early engagement with Romantic animal painting before his ballet and racehorse subjects dominated.

ArtistEdgar Degas
YearUnknown
CategoryAnimals
MediumOil on canvas
LicenceCC0 Public Domain
Resolution5 119 × 3 390 px
FormatJPEG
File Size~9.4 MB

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